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. 1982 Nov;38(2):806–809. doi: 10.1128/iai.38.2.806-809.1982

Immunological and Physicochemical Characterization of Heat-Labile Enterotoxins Isolated from Two Strains of Escherichia coli

John D Clements 1,2,†, Dianne C Flint 1, Frederick A Klipstein 1
PMCID: PMC347813  PMID: 6183221

Abstract

Heat-labile enterotoxins from Escherichia coli strains of human and porcine origins had identical subunit composition, arrangement, and size in sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Immunological differences recently described by others were shown to reside exclusively in the B subunits.

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